Cotswold

Off course it's ginger, you're in Sweatyland. Does it smell of piss? Only joking, like. ATB, Cotswold (Hey, somebody was going to say it and it's not like me getting there first)

No, Kayno, Oxford is the capital of Oxfordshire - the bit to the left of Buckinghamshire. It's a major university town, lots of really nice architecture if that floats your boat. Jericho and down to the river is nice for a wander. If you're into books (but not really sporting stuff), then you're laughing, Blackwells etc. Stacks of decent pubs, especially for proper ale. A bit minging around the city centre/Carfax, loads of drunks and homeless types. This time of year the students will be disappearing to be replaced with millions of tourists - stacks of Yanks and Japs especially. Have he

I see, thanks Frank, that makes sense. Cotswolld

Hi Frank, What's the thinking behind not feeding complete and meat together? ATB, Cotswold

I have never known a year like it for rats. Normally I'll get a few under the poultry houses over the winter but they'll be back in the fields by spring. This year we're over-run with the sods. I have hoppers down all year with Neosorexa Gold and that generally keeps the problem well under control. But this year there are at least 3 nests on my patch and one next door. Two of the one's on mine can be accessed if I move some shed panels - that's the plan for tomorrow, if we don't go to Pont ar Elan show. I'm wondering if these ones are getting some sort of immunity to the bait? I read

Yup, and I've got a week off from people who have far more intelligence than some on here. And I work with lots of SEN pupils! BNP, um another trigraph rather like SEN. Look at the facial features of a lot of SEN pupils, and then look at the BNPs finest. What a coincidence.

Yup, and let's face it, there has never been an all white rapist, has there? He would probably been able to manage spelling and punctuation far better? You lot are deluding yourselves so very much and making yourselves look about the same standard as the BNP dickheads. But.........you can tell that it's half-term, can't you?

Most of them were not old enough to be able to know what went on in the Thatcher era - I'm no fan of her, but it wasn't one sided, was it? I asked them about the Rebecca riots and they didn't have a clue. Welsh nationalists one minute, followers of the bug-eyed BNP poof the next. Maybe grow-up, get a job and contribute to this country that you claim to be so proud of, but be content to live of its benefits - much like the 'foreigners' that you condemn, you lowlife, chav scum.

BNP = uneducated, illiterate scumbags. Do you really think that they could organise a village fete, let alone run a country? Most immigrants have better written English skills than a lot of you wannabe Stormtroopers. I asked the same question some months ago regarding what have you done for this country. My question back then was prompted by some Welsh blokes who I had met on the march in 1998. I met these lads on the march, we got on, exchanged numbers etc, and subsequently had sport together on each others patches for quite a few years. Some of these lads were a bit younger than me (

Main main, I'm not far from you and love a drop of jake. What's it like; dry or sweet, pukka cider apples? Anything like Minchins or Tilly's? Cotswold

The battery on my 110 went completely flat. Charged it up, stuck it back in and when I connected it up the battery indicator light on the dash came on before I even put the key in. When I turned the key that light went out and the others came on. Weirdly I had used the tow hitch just before, but had started it OK after disconnecting. Any ideas? Knackered battery, or something worse?

For the table birds you don't need anything fancy - you don't even need perches. One of my best houses is a 6x4 shed that I got cheap 'cos it was a bit battered. If you ask around at places like that you can often get a bargain and then add the necessary bits for next to nothing. For my small runs that I keep the silkies and banti's in I use half rails as a base/frame and then use plastic water pipe to form hoops, then attach the wire with cable ties. The house bit will be knocked up out of scrap timber/pallets/what have you. It is surprising what you can achieve out of not very much!

Bloke next door got one last year, ex-commercial, fairly high mileage IIRC but well maintained, and he reckons it's the best he's had. He does a 40 mile commute to work in it and reckons it is favourable on fuel (and he's very heavy footed!). He had a pro job done with built-in double tier dog cages and it looks good. He tows a caravan with it at weekends and reckons that fuel consumption is equivalent to their Volvo 940 estate. Only downside, as far as I see, is that it is a fairly vile vomit yellow, but as he says, it makes it easy to spot in large car parks. Each to his own.

Definitely.

We've got Ixworths, which are a post-war utility strain i.e good for eggs and meat. Only got those 'cos a guy round here breeds them. Before that had all sorts, but reckon that out of the commercial types Sasso are the best. Cyril Bason web site is good, and I think they will deliver to Cheshire.